“ Reading through the solution to Dr. Russell's search challenge, which is a very advanced one that I wouldn't expect most high school students to employ, got me thinking about a search strategy and tools that I haven't employed before. That prompted me into thinking about creating a list of accessible search tools and strategies that middle school and high school students often overlook. Here's my short list of tools and strategies that are often overlooked.”
Via John Evans

Elizabeth Hutchinson's insight:

Always good to share something when it's been made simple for you! Basic searching Google that many don't know about!

There’s a whole lot of learning going on out there, but I’ve learned that it’s not all that easy to find.

For the last few years I’ve tried to keep up with it myself and help my students and colleagues keep up as well. I decided it was time to pull it all together. Here’s a first go at an infographic collecting some of the major professional learning opportunities out there for school librarians.

Please let me know what I missed and please feel free to embed and share with friends.

A School Library is a whole school resource. "Buy a resource for the library you buy it for the whole school to use. Buy a resource for the science department then only the science students get the benefit" Great point!

Americans value their libraries, but there are still misconceptions about libraries that exist among folks who maybe haven't visited a library in a while... or haven't visited one ever!...
Via Bookmarking Librarian, Jessica Raeside

Being on social media and being aware of it's power is where you school library should be. It is really important that School libraries demonstrate good practice by using these resources themselves. This article point out very nicely why you need to get yourselves involved in the social media scene.

“When we talk about what changes technology has brought to classrooms across the globe, the answers could basically be never ending. Teachers could talk about things like bringing ease to researchin...”
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Elizabeth Hutchinson's insight:

As technology changes we have to ensure that we stay with it so that our students can use it to learn.

Here is one of my favourite videos on flipped classroom. In this funny and insightful video, Keith Hughes explains the idea behind the flipped classroom and provides some excellent tips for teachers who want to integrate the flipped teaching methodology in their instruction. The video is a little bit long (24 minutes) but is really worth watching.

"All images courtesy of Professional Library Literature with special thanks to the anonymous creator of these brilliant book parodies, who, I suspect, may be in fear of losing their job if outed. Additional thanks to B.T. Carver of LISNews for drawing our attention to this delightful webpage. There are more of the same on the site."
Via Karen du Toit

“Looking for a fun digital storytelling idea? This is for you! The basic idea of the 4 Icon Challenge is to take a story, novel, historical event, content topic, etc. and summarize it using only for...”
Via GwynethJones

Elizabeth Hutchinson's insight:

This could be really fun for a competition to guess the book title in a library :)

If you have time to listen to this then it makes some interesting points about how libraries need to move with the times. We need to be up to date and struggle to make decisions quickly enough to keep up. We need to be a the front not waiting to see what happens.

A public librarian’s interaction with teens affirms her faith in bibliotherapy, as does her research. Read her story, along with a recommended list of realistic YA fiction. We invite you to suggest more titles.

Here are some tips for writing more compelling headlines...The infographic by Neil Patel from Quick Sprout will give you a simple formula for enticing headlines. Though there's no one-size-fits-all headline trope that guarantees a crazy influx of traffic, the tactics below should help you tweak your headlines to get your posts the attention they deserve.
Via Lauren Moss, Kim Borghouts, Mary Clark, GwynethJones

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